Ireland survey, this paper calculates this index for low birthweight arising from preterm and intra …-uterine-growth-retardation. It also carries out a decomposition of this index for the different sources of low birthweight and finds that income … conditions appear to be more relevant for IUGR. The application of the standard Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition also indicates that …

rather than decreased obesity amongst the less well-off. A decomposition of the concentration indices suggest that the …

decomposition techniques to Irish data for 1994 and 2000 to examine the factors lying behind the gender differences in GHQ score …

- tors. We provide an illustration on France and Ireland and check the sensitivity of the results to the decomposition order. … composition, employment level, etc.). Then, the decomposition helps to extract an absolute measure of the impact of tax … countries. Finally, the full decomposition allows quantifying the relative role of policy changes compared to all other fac …

stress fell in Ireland over the 1994 to 2000 period regardless of the threshold chosen. Decomposition techniques suggest that …

Ireland over the 2002-2007 period. There is no evidence of either first or second order stochastic dominance between the two … body mass index rather than a change in the shape of the distribution. Finally a semi-parametric decomposition of the …